Active Learning Blog

In this week’s blog, we’re spotlighting the ultimate goal of every college and university around the world: student success. After all, helping students succeed and develop skills for lifelong learning is the primary reason most instructors went into teaching in the first place.

Is technology based teaching the wave of the future? Is technology paved to overtake the traditional classroom, or will it simply enhance and expand it? In a recent whitepaper called "The Learning Evolution," Arizona State University's Jeffrey J. Selingo and SUNY-Albany's Ben Wildavsky discuss the answers to these questions, with a discussion on five ways technology will change the classroom of the future.

For educators looking to achieve better student learning outcomes, one strategy is to encourage students to ask more questions. But not just any questions. Students need to learn how to ask the right questions to positively impact their learning outcomes. In an article by Cynthia Richettie and James Sheerin, originally published in The Constructive Classroom, ASCD explores strategies that instructors can use in helping students ask the right questions.